Mop-wringer.



No. 64!,744. Patented Ian. 23, I900. A. B. WESTRUP.

MOP WRINGER.

(Application filed June 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

I IHIIIIIHll/H/HH UNITED STATES ALFRED l3. WVESTRUP,

PATENT. OEErc OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MOP-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,744, dated January23, 1900. Application filed June 6,1899. Serial No. 719,534. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED B. WESTRUP, of the city of New York, boroughof Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Mop-Wringers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

I will first describe my improvement in detail and then point out thenovel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of a mop-wringerembodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial sectional viewof the same on the plane of the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a viewshowing a mop-wringer embodying my improvement in position for wringinga mop, and Fig. 4 is a partial detail showing parts of a mop-wringerembodying my improvement.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates a bucket. As shown, this bucket is of the ordinary roundedshape; but the bucket may be made of any desired shape and material. Thebucket will preferably be provided with toes a a.

B B designate opposite angular standards, which maybe bent at their endsand these ends fastened to the wall of the bucket A by rivets b 6. Ofcourse the manner in which the standards B B are fastened to the bucketA is immaterial.

O O designate guide-slots formed in the opposite branches of the angularstandards B. The pins cl are shown as passing through the ends of a pairof inverted-U-shaped handles E E and through the guide-slots O C, andmay be screwed into the ends of the rolls D D, which wringing-rolls arepreferably made of wood. i

I will now describe the operation of the device.

The wringing-rolls D and D being at the lower outer ends of the guidesO, and therefore separated to their widest extent, the handle E may bethrown by the operator over against the handle E. Fig. 2 illustrates howthe various parts of the wringer will then be disposed toward eachother. A mop, as F, is

then placed between the rolls D D, and after immersion in the liquid theoperator grasps the handles E E and pulls them upward. This movementwill cause the rolls to approach each other until they reach the upperinner or elevated ends of the guides C. When the rolls have reached thisposition, the operator draws the mop through the rolls, thereby wringingit, at the same time drawing upward on the handles, thus regulating thepressure of the rolls upon the mop. The operator may place his feet onthe toes aa to hold down the bucket while the mop is being drawn betweenthe rolls. When the mop has been wrung by being drawn between the rolls,the operator releases his hold on the handles E E, and the rolls willthen descend to the lower outer ends of the guides C. When at the lowerouter ends of the guides O, the rolls are sufficiently far apart topermit the mop to be reinserted in the fluid contained in the bucket.

It will be seen that by my improvement I produce a mop-wringer at oncesimple, cheap, and highly eifective. The handles E E not only serve asmeans for drawing the rolls together, but they also serve as handles forthe bucket.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a mop-wringer, the combination with opposite angular standardshaving opposing guide-slots converging toward their inner upper ends, ofopposing wringer-rolls having their ends journaled in said slots, and U-shaped handles connected at their terminals to the journals of therolls.

2. In a mop-wringer, the combination with opposite standards, each ofwhich is provided with a guide-slot, said slots being inclined andparallel, a wringer-roll journaled in said slots, an opposing roll, anda bail or handle of inverted- U shape having its terminals connected tothe ends of the roll.

ALFRED B. WESTRUP.

